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October 18, 1993 University of ◄ sports Passing Wildcats Huskers survive Kansas State scare and go on to win 45-28, despite record passing day from Wildcat quarterback Chad May. Pages Monday 55/45 Cloudy with a chance of rain today. Tuesday continued cloudiness, chance for rain. -Lincoln Vol. 93 No. 40 Regents approve green space, consultants Park construction begins next April By Mark Harms Staff Reporter Despite protests from ASUN senators, the NU Board of Regents voted to go ahead with the construction of North Plaza Park. The park, or grcenspacc, is part of a proposal submitted by UNLChancellorGraham Spanier to replace a parking lot north of the Nebraska Union with an arboreous landscape. The board voted 6-2 to approve the proposal, a board official said. Speaking before the board. Deb Silhacek, chairwoman of the ASUN Campus Life Com mittee, said there was an “overwhelming” re sponse from students and faculty against build ing the park. Silhacek said the $ 198,000 dollars budgeted for the park could be better spent on other projects, such as renovating Richards Hall and funding the Academic Success Center. She said those projects were neglected because of bud get cuts. “The program is not right in light of contin uous budget cuts,” she said. “The plan needs to be reassessed from a student’s point of view.” University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Regent Keith Bcnes said he worried about the message building the park would send to the See GREENSPACE on 3 Group to investigate NU engineering he NU Board of Regents approved a list of consultants Friday to study Nebraska’s engineering programs and suggest solu tions if problems are found. But board members disagreed about the wording of the consultants’ mission. Regent Rosemary Skrupa ofOmaha said she was happy with the consultants selected, but she was disappointed that the definition of their charge contained no specific mention of cstab By Mark Harms Staff Reporter lishing an independent college at the Universi ty of Nebraska at Omaha. “This is very nice verbiage, but it is not getting to the heart of the matter,” Skrupa said. “What precipitated this was a very urgent re quest by business leaders and faculty to reestab lish an independent engineering college in Omaha.” Skrupa proposed an amendment to have the consultants look specifically at establishing an engineering college at UNO. Regent Nancy O’Brien of Waterloo also said the consultant’s charge should specify studying UNO’s request for its own engineer ing college. “If this study docs not address the particular issue of an independent engineering college in See ENGINEERING on 3 Flames of enlightenment AIDS vigil informs crowd, recalls victims By Ann Stack Staff Reporter It only takes one candle — one 1 ight in the darkness—to make a difference. That was the message of Friday night’s candlelight vigil for'AIDS awareness. For some, the candlelight sym bolized hope fbrThe ftiturc, as indi cated by the number of young chil dren there. For others, the (lames served as a memorial —a symbol of sadness and loss. UNL graduate Lynne Knutzen-Young was one of those people. On January 14, 1993, AIDS claimed the life of her brother, Duran Knutzen. Friday night, Knutzen-Young participated in her First candlelight vigil for AIDS/ HIV awareness. Sponsored by the Minority AIDS Education Task Force, the sixth annual Lincoln Candlelight Vigil included a march from 12th and O streets to the north side of the Cap itol. About 75 people turned out for the event, nearly doubling last year’s count of 40 attendees. Joel Gaiardo, Coordinator of the Hispanic Community Center, said concern, support, and education were the objectives in the fight for AIDS/HIV awareness. . “It’s growing much more rapid ly than anyone anticipated,’’ he said. “And right now, the only solution is prevention.” The evening’s agenda included speeches by a representative of Gov. Ben Nelson and Sen. Don Travis Heying/DN Marty Matson of Omaha listens during a candlelight vigil Friday night while other participants recall loved ones who have died ol AIDS. About 75 people attended the march to the Capitol for AIDS awareness. Wesely of Lincoln. Crowd members also had the opportunity to speak openly about lives of loved ones claimed by AIDS. A chorus of “Kum-Ba-Ya” was interspersed throughout the program. Wesely began his speech by comp! imenting Nebraskaon its lack of segregation of those infected with HIV. ' “In this slate, we’ve been able to stop the hysteria that has started elsewhere,” he said. “We’ve been able to combat the ‘Scarlet Letter’ altitude. Nebraska should be com mended for moving slowly and wisely. “But maybe we’ve moved too slowly. It’s time to reach out and comfort those who need our sup port,” Wesely said. UNL English graduate student David Whitaker, who has attended five other AIDS awareness vigils in Lincoln and Omaha, said he thought Nebraska needed lo catch up with the rest of the country. Since January 1993, 160 cases . of AIDS have been reported in Nebraska, Gajardo said. That num ber more than doubles the number of cases reported during 1992, he said. Inthcpasl,Gajardosaid,alislof names was read to commemorate Nebraskans who had died of AIDS. By now, he said, the list has gotten too long to read. Free hemp rally draws disappointing small crowd By Rainbow Rowell Staff Reporter he University ofNcbraska-Lin coln’s NORML/Hcmp chapter experimented with its first free concert rally Saturday night. But the results were disappointing, the group’s president said. David Spl ichal said only 40 people wefc-ftt the rally at-anygiven time. “When we charge three bucks, we get about 300 people,” Spl ichal, a junior horticulture major, said. “So maybe next time we’ll charge five bucks and hope for 500.” Splichal said competition from UNL’s Homecoming festivities might have contributed to the poor turnout. The group usually organizes two rallies each year to attract new mem bers and provide information about the legalization of marijuana. ,Saturday’s rally was sqhcdulcd to start at 6 p.m., but had a late start. First band Pretty Kitty, formerly Bunker Joe, started playing after 7:30 p.m. Pretty Kitty lead singer and guitar ist Daniel Kruse said the band wanted to help out NORML/Hcmp because of troubles in their hometown of Hardington. Kruse said he thought five Hartington kids were entrapped by the legal system for smoking ditchweed, a type of marijuana that grows wild in Nebraska. “There’s an aura of secrecy and * shame that surrounds this issue,” Kruse said, “and this brings an aura of igno rance.” Just the Opposite, a Lincoln duo, also played at the rally. Urethra Franklin was scheduled to play, but See HEMP on 2 NU officials struggle to implement gender equity Attempts at gender equity get burned By Mark Harms 9tatf Rtoortm____ UNL has made important strides toward achieving gender equity on campus in recent years, an official said. But these efforts have spurred hostile reac tions from some faculty and students, said Claudia Price-Decker, chai rwom an of the Chan cellor’s Commission on the Status of Women. The hiring of more women and minorities and the increasing role of the Affirmative Ac tion Office arc signs the University of Nebras ka-Lincoln is moving in the right direction, Price-Decker said. “Perhaps because of the progress that we have made, we now see a backlash which is reflected in hostile behavior toward women and others who have attempted to secure a more equitable environment at UNL,” she said dur ing her report to the NU Board of Regents Friday. Price-Decker recalled numerous incidents of such hostility: Eric Jolly, director of the UNL Affirmative Action Office, received hate mail, had deroga tory remarks stamped in the snow outside his office w indow, and had a ful 1, used condom put on his office door, Price-Decker said. She said male students barged into the offic es of women faculty and asked them who they had to sleep with to get their jobs. Department chairmen told the women it was their problem. Price-Decker said. In another incident, Price-Decker said, a See EQUITY on 2 Football scholarships decrease 20 percent By Dan McKinney Stsff Rtoortmr_ Since 1972, the NCAA has been struggling to define gender equity. Now, after an NCAA task force defined gender equity in August, Nebraska’s struggle lies in implementing equity. Nebraska athletes and administrators arc trying to determine whether equity has to be achieved through eaual numbers of sports or equal numbers of scholarship athletes. Building off of Title IX — the 1972 law calling for equal educational opportunities among men and women — the NCAA has defined gender equity as providing male and female athletes equal opportunities tor scholar ships, benefits and services. Nebraska currently has il men’s and 10 women’s sports. With the addition of women’s soccer next year, the number of men’s and women’s sanctioned sports will be equal. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Graham Spanier said adding women’s soccer would take Nebraska one stop closer to equity. “When we have women’s soccer up and running, 1 will feel we have satisfied most of the definition of gender equity,” Spanier said. “The only test we wouldn’t pass would be equal numbers.” At Nebraska, approximately 61 percent of scholarshipathletcsarcmen.ln 1993,231 men, as compared to 144 women, receive scholar ships. In 1991, the NCAA conducted a survey. See NCAA on 2
